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Issue 46 | December 2000
Volume 10 | Number 5 | Issue 46 | December 2000 Marion McLeod: Charlotte Randall, The Curative Editorial Correspondence Rosemary McLeod: Helen Smyth, Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand Joan Rosier-Jones: Barbara Else (ed), Grand…
Blue-stockinged heroines, Rosemary McLeod
Rocking the Cradle: Contraception, Sex and Politics in New Zealand Helen Smyth Steele Roberts, $29.95, ISBN 1877228168 Women will recognise the subtext of Helen Smyth’s history as a record of their own families; not the families posing stiffly in…
Tagged with: December 2000, Helen Smyth, Issue 46, Rosemary McLeod, Steele Roberts
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in Gender, Health, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
On the beat, Neil Cameron
A Policeman’s Paradise? Policing a Stable Society, 1918-1945 Graeme Dunstall Dunmore Press in association with the Historical Branch, Department of Internal Affairs, $49.95, ISBN 0864693567 This (large) volume is the fourth in the “official” history of the New Zealand…
Tagged with: December 2000, Department of Internal Affairs, Dunmore Press, Graeme Dunstall, Issue 46, Neil Cameron
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
Posted in History, Non-fiction, Politics & Law, Review
The facts of lives, Bryan Gilling
Set in a Long Place: A Life from North to South Maurice Andrew Hazard Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877161586 Sorry to Bother You, Doctor Shirley Ferguson Cape Catley, $27.95, ISBN 0908561806 Bridging the Centuries Valerie Cowan Cape Catley, $24.95, ISBN 0908561784…
Tagged with: Bryan Gilling, Cape Catley, December 2000, Hazard Press, Issue 46, Maurice Andrew, Shirley Ferguson, Valerie Cowan
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Biography, Non-fiction, Review
The rhythm method, Paola Bilbrough
From the Author of Nick Ascroft Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0864733887 Animals Indoors Stephanie de Montalk Victoria University Press, $19.95, ISBN 0864733895 A close-up of a bat’s face and prehensile paws adorn the cover of Nick Ascroft’s first collection…
Tagged with: December 2000, Issue 46, Nick Ascroft, Paola Bilbrough, Stephanie de Montalk, Victoria University Press
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Review
Modern, John Campbell
Full Circle: A Modern Morality Tale Bob Jones Hazard Press, $24.95, ISBN 1877161764 Modern Morality Tale.” Let’s begin with those words. And of those words, there’s one in particular I really want you to think about: ”Modern”. “Modern” is…
Tagged with: Bob Jones, December 2000, Hazard Press, Issue 46, John Campbell
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
Posted in Fiction, Literature, Review
“They all knew”, Peter Russell
Strawberries with the Führer Helga Tiscenko Shoal Bay Press, $29.95, ISBN 1877251038 The first chapters of Helga Tiscenko’s memoir of her life are in large part a tale of the ordinary. Her childhood with her younger sister Sigrid in…
Tagged with: December 2000, Helga Tiscenko, Issue 46, Peter Russell, Shoal Bay Press
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Autobiography, Non-fiction, Review
Poem – John Dickson
a note concerning names the early spring evening was warm and close and while I walked the dog there was grass and trees and a moon and something else in me the intimate safety of names Later, I listened…